kurdish civilians fall victim to the war in syria has all kinds of wing groups push to expand their control to set up an islamic state. it's black wednesday ad britain state funded hospitals as news staff arrivals coincide with rising patient death rates meanwhile as major medical gaffes of n.h.s. facilities leave hundred suffering we examine the problems also. we were taught how to interact with a look at them as humans but not speak but. we talk to a former guantanamo guard about he's disturbing day job and then a tour his jail which let him. convert to islam.

it is to be a mosque you're watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program now russia's foreign minister is urging the international community to react to disturbing reports of civilians being massacred in syria four hundred fifty kurds were allegedly killed by rebels in the north east of the country now let's get more on this from our correspondent in the region in. well it really it seems like the situation is spiraling out of control without any sign of resolution so what has been the reaction and tell us about the international effort there. well the international effort and that seems to be one of the big problems in the region is that international effort doesn't seem to really be there there may have been some talk about the situation in the necessity for syria to come to a peaceful resolution of the conflict but it doesn't seem to be there as you have mentioned around four hundred fifty people are reportedly reported to have been

killed by al-qaeda affiliated groups in northeastern syria this one really is going to be children the problem is that russian foreign minister has pointed out is that despite the fact that carnage seems to be on the increase the international community stays silent for some reason. we believe that there is in this action in this me we were shocked by the reports of around four hundred fifty kurds massacred in the north of syria's including children just because the men were fighting against us and it's not the first such report of the un security council to condemn all these terrorist attacks we've seen some of its members refusing to condemn terrorist attacks in syria justifying it with the fact that the people behind them fighting against the outdated regime this stance is totally unacceptable terrorism should be treated without double standards. although there have been there have the reports of the four hundred people who were killed haven't been authentic cadence yet there doesn't mean that nobody is getting killed in fact we have spoken

to a number of a number of people whose relatives are in the region and they have described the carnage and horrifying details let's have a listen. another room surrounded they started going from door to door and. if there were any. and took women and children hostage the rebels came into the house of my cousin she was at home so the murder took the women and children and. one of the reasons why people are saying that kurds come under such harsh attacks from the all news. groups such as the others are front is because they have been quite successful in pushing the extremists out of this region where unfortunately al-qaeda is also dreaming of establishing its own state of waiting for syria to essentially descend to great and also kurds are saying that they are not even if they are not trying to pursue the dream of their own state who today at least would love to live in the

country in this state and in a region where peace will prevail so definitely the situation doesn't seem to get any better only seems to get worse and of course there has been encouraged from russia to for the international community to pay closer attention and step up peaceful efforts in the region you know all right thank you very much for bringing us the subway that was a really good reporting there from istanbul. well over two years of fighting have split the country raising concerns over the ability to piece syria back together it's now divided into three distinct parts stick a look at the general outlines here well the syrian government is keeping its grip a large area in the south of the country which is a huge section of the population here belongs to president as it's alawite muslim sect while the rebels most of them representing the sunni a majority are in control of a large chunk of northern provinces stretching to the iraqi border in the east and there are many al qaeda affiliated groups in the ranks of the opposition tucked in

the eastern corner here is the syrian kurdish minority enjoying a large degree of independence but their own claves in other areas have become the targets of heavy attacks from al qaeda linked fighters while the free syrian army insists it's only targeting specific kurdish political parties but the ethnic group says there is a wide scale war against them syria's kurds are raising the alarm over ethnic cleansing by groups connected to al qaida and it comes amid reports that militants are about to announce an independent islamic state in northern syria or there's likely to be international silence to the allegations of kurdish genocide according to german journalist manual austin writer who is closely followed the syrian conflict. i don't expect any international reaction except to protest a right no i don't think so because they are international interests especially the international the geopolitical interests of turkey was

a very important need to remember we shouldn't forget that nato troops also german troops are now at the trigger syrian border with patriot rocket systems heading against syria so we have turkey on this site and it's not turkey place this important really conflict i don't think that there will be any serious international reaction a former member stated that the leader of the motor up front is the verb king or working close with the cia and we have other information from the kurdish popular defense units who claim that the front is also organized and supported by the turkish intelligence and i think this is not a coincidence when we know how the kurds are treated in turkey itself while we have just received a letter from the u.n. human rights committee which says our team in the region is investigating these reports and if there are fights such acts would amount to war crimes and they are

perpetrators should be brought to justice armed groups also have responsibilities under international law and should not saying that the army from prosecution will be closely following the escalating tensions between direct groups in syria and the situation for civilians there on air and online of course here on our team. now it seems to match the patients being treated by britain's state medical system are enduring more pain than gain and there have been hundreds of serious wonders of national health service hospitals in recent years causing people severe disabilities or even killing them at n.h.s. hospitals today it's known as black wednesday a time when death rates traditionally go up with the arrival of new less experienced staff who has examined the problem. it was meant to be a routine operation to remove her varicose veins but after a surgical blunder lorraine previn suffered from complications that were left on treated she ended up having her leg amputated.

you know. what to do next basically just seemed to fall between. the thing that was going on this is the hospital where lorraine's routine operation went wrong and why she had to have her leg amputated as a result three years later and she's finally got an apology from grantham hospital but she's still fighting for compensation with the n.h.s. over the catalogue of errors that took place with her care trying to get answers after the surgery merely added insult to injury a quarter of complaints in three ospital and claimed the said last medical file was it was just. a play on are still going on to wall the questions are always asking lorraine isn't the only patient to receive substandard care from the national health service over recent years john a bow it was left with excruciating pain of

a drug called bladder operation only to discover three months later that doctors had left seven inch forceps inside her the n.h.s. calls such incidents never events blunders deemed so serious that they should never happen freedom of information requests have revealed that over the past four years there have been seven hundred and sixty two such mistakes we measure patient satisfaction every every year i suspect at the moment it probably is pretty low i came into the n.h.s. in one nine hundred seventy seven and i was told i only had five years to last because it was on its knees every year that i spent in it it was the worst it ever been i think it's in a crisis i think it has to change its culture recent scandals have exposed higher than average death rates in failing high. spittles not just myself but my colleagues also higher management you know we're just more stressed now and we have a lot of pressures to complete things on time and you know we're not being able to

deliver the care that we want to twelve patients it's having quite a best effect the memo said well n.h.s. staff talk about being nervous stretched hospital managers of blaming the problems on squeezed budgets a senior n.h.s. official recently said that they're about to run out of cash in a very serious fashion all the countries in europe by and large spend a lot more money on health care than we did receive report by our recent run. as one of the lowest in terms of patients we're paying too much for too little care the rain is adjusting to life as an amputee she now has to rely on her husband to care for her it was a rendition. i think something larissa locked into so happen into other people but when it actually happens to you. and you feel down you feel lying we open it and it was just a mixture of all those rolled into world and it was just devastating thing

she now says that she can only hope that no more patients have to go through what she did. r.t. london go to well and no hidden agendas these are iran's terms for negotiations with the west or its nuclear program new iranian president hassan rouhani proposed direct talks with washington at his first news conference since being sworn into office the details from artie's lindsey france. iran's new president hassan rouhani has called for dialogue with the west but warned the language of sanctions will not work he won june's vote by promising to put an end to the country's international isolation over its nuclear energy program rouhani made his stance clear in his inaugural address. i see this time to be if you seek your student loans or speak to a few rungs of respect not through the language of son actions so iran's president has extended an olive branch and what have we seen from western countries so far new sanctions have to be imposed just

a few days before the president was sworn in the u.s. house of representatives overwhelmingly passed new restrictions on iran's oil sector and its mining and construction industries even though invited some western leaders didn't even attend the president's inauguration some say it was an opportunity missed to break the ice there is a new president but does that signal a new approach every action is sure to be analyzed and gesture evaluated. while the possibility of direct talks between the united states and iran hasn't happened in oh we're three decades although in september a new round of negotiations is expected between iran and the international community we talked to hillary mann leverett who has extensive experience in the go shooting with iran and she was a u.s. diplomat involved in talking to the country during george w. bush's administration and things washington won't make the concessions that's a wrong ones. it's hard to see how they're they can meet in the middle of the two

key issues for the islamic republic of iran that i think are ensconced in international law or that the united states recognizes both its sovereign right and its treaty right to enrich uranium that's something that the united states has shown no evidence it is willing or able to do with the the obama administration and congress the other piece that it's critically important for the islamic republic is for the united states to ease and lift at least some of its sanctions that it has imposed on the islamic republic and forced or tried to course countries from around the world to impose on the islamic republic of iran that too will be very very difficult for president obama to leverage because many most nearly i think sixty sixty five percent of the sanctions imposed on iran are now are now legislated are now in u.s. law president obama simply does not have the power to lift those sanctions without the acquiescence of congress there are three main areas that are problematic in washington the pro israel constituency is the neo conservative elements on the

right and what i would call the liberal imperialists they don't care so much about the nuclear program but they are jet set against the political structure of the islamic republic and so many of the same sions have been pulled from washington are not just about the nuclear program that they're about iran it's domestic politics that's going to be a very difficult not to crack. stay with us and just a few moments we hear from people who used to work at guantanamo bay and they'll be sharing their harrowing experiences of how prisoners are treated there right after the break. thank. you.

do we speak your language as anybody will or not a day in. the program says documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news a little turn to angle this story. here. altie spanish to find out more visit actuality. welcome back this is r.t. coming to live from moscow now the hunger strike again tottenham

a bay has receded during the holy month of ramadan and attention has now turned to how the detainees are being treated there well we've heard accounts from several prisoners who describe a daily routine of invasive body searches which sometimes included sexual assault terry holbrooke's worked as a guard at the prison camp and he revealed the instructions he was given. we were told not to interact with them not to look at them as humans not to talk with them not to speak with them have nothing to do with them unless it was absolutely necessary important to work we were told to be very aggressive in searching growing . i don't think any of us as guards felt comfortable doing that as a result of such we didn't do that there were certain rules that we were given that many of us just didn't all of we didn't see on those as being the political logical or ethical in some circumstances. and over a hundred sixty six remaining we've had a living year of to find any shred of evidence to charge try and convict them

and we've not been able to do that nor we've been able to falsify the evidence i would think of america being the great nation that it is and having the wonderful legal system that it does can extend the courtesy of sending people home after ten years eleven years twelve years of captivity. maybe we need to have a good look in the mirror and take a look at ourselves. james he is a former u.s. army chaplain who worked at guantanamo he was arrested and charged with aiding the enemy but had this and other charges dropped at a court martial but he claims the real reason he was imprisoned was for objecting to prisoner abuse at the facility. basically after objecting to. the horrible conditions the enormous amount of abuse that was going on there then i was we'll roaded and accused of being a terrorist myself and that landed me in prison by the u.s. military i was very much aware of the qur'an being desecrated there were reports

stories from prisoners how they were maybe subjected to being put in you know what you might call this a tonic circle where interrogators attempted to force them to you know make prostration like in the form of the muslim prayer in the center of that's a turning circle and then of course there was sexual humiliation being carried out on the part of female interrogators down in guantanamo and another surveillance scale has struck the united states this time it's america's anti-drug agency that's investigated for spying and then lying about it as we report online and big brother captures one a day she's bare redhanded full video is a billion haiti you tube channel check it out. right on the scene. first for you and i think.

on our reporters. in. the in the. now it's exactly six months to sochi two thousand and fourteen olympics citic said cost and corruption would make the next winter games on temple so martin andrus headed to the southern russian resort to check out how the money is being spent. ok i'm not too bad but i think it's best to leave it to the professionals when they arrive next year in tsotsi for the winter olympics twenty forty and account is getting lower the olympic park with its brand new arenas is almost ready and in february next year many of the world's top athletes will compete against each other

right here at the skating palace it's the first time since one nine hundred eighty that russia has hosted such an event and with an estimated three billion viewers russia will be in the spotlight once again when all the construction is finished such will both some of the best and technologically advanced sporting facilities in the world although with many cynics tells of corruption local opposition and concerns with overspending is such ready well the proof as they say is in the putting. the finishing touches are being added now and the amount of work that has been done in the city is huge the whole area is being improved and made more comfortable and beautiful with new pedestrian zones and underground passes being constructed the city has got a completely new look now it's newly built and very beautiful and there cannot be any doubt that everything will be on time to host the olympics. slowly and surely

each piece of the jigsaw is coming together another example is this next stadium. the ball sure i stone says it's twelve thousand people and as you can see well it's an impressive stadium it's unusual ready various competitions have been staged here over the past few months and during the olympics will be used for ice hockey and after that it can be transformed to more accommodate a plethora of other sporting activities ranging from basketball to boxing. the mounting cost of course the pole and the rosa who to resort to host the biathlon and ski center and there will be a freestyle ski and snowboarding park. the two parks are to be connected by a forty eight kilometer highway as well as a high speed train that will run every five minutes and transport tens of thousands of passengers a day. the winter olympics is only the beginning for the whole area after the main event early next year sort she will set about hosting twenty two international sports events ranging from the grand prix of figure skating to the formula one next

november. the olympic sign here i've been newly built airports represents what the entire occasion is for us together and brings out the best in people and sporting events and politics aside as the whole world focuses its attention on saatchi and the surrounding area the final preparations we put into place and what promises to be or the greatest sporting events held ever and after my trip here i can confidently say that the winter olympics twenty fourteen will be one to remember martha danbury's party. well earlier martin discussed with my calling to say another issue that's come up ahead of the sochi games president obama has slammed russia saying he has no patience for countries that intimidate gays lesbians and transgenders and it's after russian officials confirmed the country's new law banning the promotion of nontraditional relationships to minors will be enforced at the winter olympics. is the most misunderstood city in the world just because

something is written in the law doesn't mean that will filter down to real life not that i'm not but i'm agreeing with that with the ruling i think it's not a good thing for the old u.b.c. community that said it's all very well and good for the west to actually preach the views on this but it's actually no different than the rule that margaret thatcher brought in called section twenty eight in one nine hundred eighty eight that was basically to protect miners to protect children regarding the promotion of homosexual culture that certainly is what it looks like in the u.k. today now one of course and actually even though that law was in place for a long time the natural of society from the some culture of to the everyday life actually it didn't really do that much harm so let's hope that even though the rules and the good thing that the future will be

bright for the. community right. now take a look at some other stories from around the world and the un is warning bahrain of serious consequences if the country continues its violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrations it says the newly passed legal amendments infringe on bottom out human rights already legislators have made a series of major changes to national anti terror laws ahead of a mass protest planned this month gathering sensitive ins in the capital are banned and courts could strip convicted for tasker's of their citizenship. anti-government anger in tunisia has broad tens of thousands into the streets calling for the resignation of the islamist led government the country's constituent assam boy is ground to hold until the government and the opposition opening o'shea sions this recent spate of unrest was barred by yet another assassination of a prominent opposition paul. addition to weeks ago. gas

explosion has killed at least eight people in argentina sources say up to a dozen people may have died in the massive apartment block blast caused by gas leak fifty more were injured in the ensuing blaze which trapped manning residents in the upper stories of the building fifteen others are still unaccounted for and firefighters warn the building may collapse and in time. over a thousand people have been evacuated to safety in a more region in southeast russia which has been delusion by floods for over two weeks now more than three hundred houses were submerged as they are more reverse and vast amounts of water into surrounding areas dozens of homes and around sixteen thousand residents are under threat with more floods expect that as the local dam is forced to release more of water the floods are close to being the region's worst since records began with water levels already reaching almost seven meters.

well up next here in our team prime interest looks at whether key financial information from the u.s. government being leaked for someone's particular economic benefit. wealthy british style.

markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tonight is a report on our t.v. . critic take three. or three. three. three stooges free. download free blogs videos for your media project a free media john to our t.v. dot com. good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm perry i'm boring and i'm bob english let's get to our headlines. eric holder is looking into market raiding the f.b.i. announced it's a finally looking into an issue that has been all too apparent to traders for gear

is namely the government's key economic announcements are awaited still being elite black boxes are supposed to embargo information until be and balance but you know unfortunately these uncle sam engineered black boxes well they're about as useful as a screen door on a submarine only last friday the big monthly jobs number was leaked three seconds early enough time to make tens of millions of dollars all in a trip to the land and speaking of economic reports the trade balance was released this morning and it was the best in years meaning the u.s. is exporting a bit more than previously unfortunately the markets we won't give chairman bernanke more evidence to taper or paid money for and seeing bond buying i'll be raking down quantitative easing or excuse me and just a bit and more evidence that the wealthy are leaving the q.e. titanic the market private equity firm representing some of the most opposed to. hated investors in the world are snatching up companies we're going to load them up

with dad and pay themselves with a loan what we call dividends this trend is up sixty two percent compared to last year at this time and last year was itself a new record according to a prominent fund manager different deals are like trading out a home equity loan and then using the money to go on vacation and you don't use the money to do anything productive in the house like we do a room doesn't went out and spent the money it's a nice work if you can find it indeed i'll be discussing corporate cheaters and the search for an on this point system with author dan ariely in just a minute and here is what's in your prime interest.